The Gilded Age
These machines replaced animals and humans in the 19th century, making harvests more efficient and plentiful.
What are mechanized tractors?
This proposal meant for silver and gold to be seen as a 16:1 ratio.
What is bimetalism?
This legislation restricted the number of immigrants from a country to 3% of total people from that country living in US in 1910.
What is the Emergency Quota Act of 1921?
This event was the worst workplace disaster in NYC history until 9/11; 100+ workers, mostly women, died.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
This legislation prohibited interlocking directorates in the same industries.
What is the Clayton Anti-Trust Act?
This strike happened at a Carnegie steel plant.
What is the Homestead Strike?
This mid-19th century political party called for more government intervention of the economy, silver standards, and ran on the Omaha Platform.
What is the Populist Party?
This association urged against voting for Catholics and favored tougher immigration laws.
What is the American Protective Association?
This term describes the act of providing someone with money in exchange for votes, power, or some other entity.
What is patronage?
This man made vertical integration popular via his steel company.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This man used dishonest graft, or stealing and bribing, in order to make lots of money; stole over two million dollars from New York City.
Who was Boss Tweed?
This populist candidate ran for president in 1892 and campaigned on the Omaha Platform.
Who is James Weaver?
This term was given to those who migrated to America as part of the New Immigration period, but did not stay for long.
What is the Birds of Passage?
This political machine was influential in the election of 1800 and established in the late 18th century.
What is Tammany Hall?
This legislation outlawed pools.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act (1887)?
This political machine, or political organization that provided jobs and services to constituents and received support in return, was the most famous of its time and was led by Boss Tweed.
What is Tammany Hall?
These two events significantly hurt farmers and caused the crop prices to plummet.
What are the Panics of 1873 and 1893?
This man published "How the Other Half Lives", which opened people's eyes to the disgust that the poor of the major cities were living in.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This man would use dishonest grafting in order to further his agenda and personal success.
Who is William Boss Tweed?
This very large company was created by J.D. Rockefeller in the late 19th century.
What is Rockefeller's Standard Oil?
This legislation allowed the Federal government to investigate trusts that were strengthened in the 1900's.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
This man created the Knights of Labor and the mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Who is Terrence Powderly?
This woman was the founder of the Hull House which provided housing, food, and education for poor women and immigrants.
Who is Jane Addams?
This man was cartoonist and journalist a critic of Boss Tweed and wrote badly about him.
Who is Thomas Nast?
This term describes when companies in a given company conspire so that a monopoly could be created within certain "niche" areas.
What are pools?